Handles for lifting



Nov. 28, 1.961 c. GOW 3,010,123

HANDLES FOR LIFTING Filed Feb. 25, 1960 CLAIRE GOW INVENTOR BY JOHN GIBSON SEMMES ATTORNEY 3,010,123 HANDLES FOR LIFTING Claire Gow, RR. 1, Harrow, Colchester South, Ontario, Canada Filed Feb. 23, 1960, Ser. No. 10,376 4 Claims. (Cl. 9-1) This invention relates to a motor boat, more particularly to handles serving primarily to lift the rear end of the boat when desired.

Handles in accordance with the invention assume a form or shape when not in use, and assume another form or shape when extended to serve as lifting means. With a pair of such handles secured to its transom, the boat may be lifted with great convenience, even by one person. To some extent, the handles when in operative position, or even when in inoperative position, serve as guards for the motor.

The object of the invention is to provide, at the rear of the boat having an outboard motor, a pair of handles by which the rear end of the boat may be conveniently lifted as required.

Another object of the invention is to provide a. pair of handles by which the rear end of the boat may be lifted, as aforesaid, and which are capable of being in effect extended when they are to be used for the purpose of lifting.

In the drawings:

FIGURE 1, is a more or less diagrammatic side elevation of a motor boat with outboard motor attached, equipped with a pair of handles made in accordance with this invention;

FIGURE 2 is a fragmentary view of FIGURE 1, on an enlarged scale, the handle being shown in its extended position; and,

FIGURE 3 is a fragmentary view of FIGURE 2, on an enlarged scale.

Referring now by numerals to the drawing, wherein like numerals of reference indicate corresponding parts in the various figures, 10 shows a typical motor boat, and 11 a typical outboard motor secured to the transom of the boat in any approved manner.

Handles 12 are illustrated in FIGS. 1, 2 and 3. As alreday stated, a pair of such handles are used, one handle being disposed on each side of the motor.

The handle, shown particularly in FIGURES 2 and 3, will now be described.

A length of pipe 24 presents a straight portion 13 terminating in a curved outer portion 14. The outer portion 14, in practice, will subtend an angle of approxi mately 90". When the handle is in operative, extended (raised) position, it will preferably assume a nearly horizontal position.

The end of the straight portion 13 is pivotally connected as at 15 to a bracket 16 secured to the transom T of the boat. A flexible steel cable 19 is pivotally connected at one end (the lower end) to another bracket 20, secured to the transom preferably vertically below the bracket 16.

The cable may be so operatively (pivotally) connected by welding the end of the cable to a T-coupling 21 pivotally connected to the bracket as by a pin 22.

The upper end of the cable telescopes into the lower end of the pipe and is adapted to serve as a means for determining the operative (raised) position of the handle, the cable acting as a tension member. Thus, the upper 3,619,123 Patented Nov. 28, 1961 end of the cable may be provided with a ball 23 adapted to seat or engage an abutment provided by a bushing 25 welded inside the pipe, adjacent its lower end.

As already stated, the curved end portion 14 of the handle subtends an angle of about and as the portion 13 is approximately horizontal when the handle is in its operative position, the curved portion, at its lower extremity, will be directed vertically. The lower bracket 29 is positioned at such a. distance below the upper bracket 16, and the arrangement is otherwise such that when the handle is in its extended operative position, the cable is bent along a portion of its length, immediately below the lower end of the handle. Thus, the cable, being bent and therefore having resiliency stored therein, tends to straighten itself. The raised position of the handle is determined, as above stated, by the engagement of the ball with the seat of the bushing. The handle is thus retained in its raised position without any means other than the cable.

When the handle is fully lowered or contracted the cable is housed within the pipe and flexed along a portion which is coextensive with the length of the curved portion 14 of th ehandle. The resiliency so stored in the bent portion of the cable as it tends to straighten itself, retains the handle securely in its inoperative or lowered position.

The embodiments of the invention in which an exclusive property or privilege is claimed are defined as follows:

1. A handle assembly for lifting an object comprising, a stiff tubular member adapted to be pivotally connected to the object so as to be raised and lowered and extend ing outwardly therefrom and terminating in a downwardly-curved outer end portion, a flexible cable telescoping in said stiff tubular member and including stop means, the other end of said flexible cable being adapted to be pivotally connected to the object at a point below where said stifi": member is pivotally connected, and means on said tubular member cooperating with said stop means for determining the raised, operative position of the handle.

2. A handle assembly as defined in claim 1, wherein said stop means comprises an enlargement on said flexible cable adapted to engage an abutment provided on the inside of said tubular member adjacent its outer end.

3. A handle assembly as defined in claim 2, wherein said enlargement comprises a ball welded to said flexible cable.

4. In combination with a boat a pair of handles operatively attached to the boat transom, each of said handles comprising a stiff tubular member pivotally attached to said transom near the upper end thereof to be raised and lowered and extending rearwardly therefrom in a straight portion terminating in a downwardly curved outer end portion, a flexible steel cabletelescoping Within said tubular member and pivotally connected to the transom at a point below the pivotal connection of said tubular member with said transom, cooperating means on said flexible cable and said stiff tubular member determining the raised operative position of the handle.

References Cited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS 2,578,089 Piker Dec. 11, 1951 2,907,295 Delaney Oct. 6, 1959 2,929,348 Jackson Mar. 22, 1960 

